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Thomas L. McNaugher was director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy from 2009 through June 2011. From 2001 to 2007, he served as RAND's vice president for Army research and director of the RAND Arroyo Center, the U.S. Army's federally funded research and development center for studies and analysis. He was a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation from 1977 to 1981. From 1981 until he rejoined RAND in January 1995, he was first a research associate and then a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. McNaugher is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the editorial board of Joint Forces Quarterly. His books include Arms and Oil: U.S. Military Strategy and the Persian Gulf (Brookings, 1985) and New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle (Brookings, 1989), and his articles on military strategy, defense organization, and weapons acquisition have been published in numerous books and scholarly journals. McNaugher received his B.S. from the United States Military Academy and both his M.P.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

One of a series of critiques of Lindblom's book written for Georgetown University's Ethics and Public Policy Center. Lindblom's work emphasizes, among other things, what the author sees as the overwhelming reactionary power of the business elite in ...

Analyzes the political and military background of the decision by the NATO Foreign and Defense Ministers, in December 1979, to modernize NATO's long-range theater nuclear forces (LRTNF), in response to the Soviet threat.

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